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Swedish students return to site of school stabbing spree

Xinhua, November 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

Students returned on Monday to the Swedish school where a 21-year-old attacker went on a stabbing spree last month that left a pair of victims dead and two others injured.

About 400 students at Kronan school in the western town of Trollhattan were greeted with hugs from their teachers and extra counseling after a week-long fall break, the daily newspaper Expresen reported.

"During the break, we have tried to talk all the time, with each other and with our kids," said one father who had accompanied his child and asked not to be named. "We have to try and forget."

The school is set to resume ordinary classes on Wednesday as the town recovers from the shock of the Oct. 22 attack that claimed the lives of a 15-year-old student and a 20-year-old teacher's assistant. The attacker was shot by police on site and later died in the hospital.

Police later confirmed that the suspect had singled out his victims based on the color of their skin, according to the school's surveillance tapes.

"It's impossible to protect yourself against an event like this, but a question going forward is how open we dare to keep our society," municipal board chairman Paul Akerlund of the Social Democrats told news agency TT on Monday. Endit